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By Email: THE YEAR 1905 - One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1905:

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi,Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!

The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour.

The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year .

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,

a dentist $2,500 per year,

a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and

a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.

Ninety percent of all U.S. doctors had no college education.

Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."

Sugar cost four cents a pound.

Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.

Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.

Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Two out of every 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write.

Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores..

Back then pharmacist said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!)

Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.

There were about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.

And...
In 1905,

Scottish poet and author George MacDonald died.

"Little Nemo" entered the Sunday comic strips.

At the St. Louis World Fiar, an ice cream vendor ran out of cups, and substited a thin rolled waffle, inventing the ice cream cone.

An 11 year old invented popsicles.

Fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex were first identified by dinosaur expert H.F. Osborn.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid held up a bank in Argentina.

Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity.

The first manned flight longer than 30 minutes was achieved by Orville Wright. The flight covered 21 miles.

The world's first theater intended exclusively for motion pictures opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Cullinan Diamond, the largest ever found (3106 carets), was discovered in South Africa.

Science fiction author Jules Verne died.

Two satellites of Jupiter were discovered.

Ah, that was a remarkable year!

That was quite a year. But tell me the kid that invented popsicles,  ??? how did he freeze them ??? Cause I remember in the early 1950's I was about 3 maybe 4 years old, the 'ice man' (on a horse drawn carriage, no kidding) came by and my grandmother would buy ice from him. It was what they call 'hot ice'.

It was winter.  :D Lots of ice - for free! Who was it that said, "The difference between a poor man and a rich man is, the rich man gets his ice in the summer, but the poor man gets his ice in the winter"...

Quote from a website:

In 1905, the Popsicle was invented by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson. He had left his fruit flavored soda outside on the porch with a stir stick in it. The drink froze to the stick and tasted good. It took 18 more years in 1923 for Epperson to apply for a patent for a "frozen ice on a stick" called the Epsicle ice pop, which his children re-named the Popsicle.

In 1925, Frank Epperson sold his famous Popsicle to the Joe Lowe Company of New York. Good Humor now owns the rights to the Popsicle.

Cool facts:
Twin Popsicles (two popsicles sticks together) were invented during the Great Depression.

Popsicle sticks were first made from Birch wood.

WOW that was so easy  ;D
Now that you said that I remembe my mom used to have a teeny tiny fridge and when we didn't have enough room in the fridge she would put the butter and milk and sometimes eggs too on the fire escape (if you live up north  you know what I'm talking about). Everybody did tht in the winter. You just bought back some memories. YIKES!!!!!! I feel real old now.

We didn't have a refrigerator when I was real young. We had an ice box and a fruit cellar. Our first fridge had the motor and compressor exposed and sitting on top of the box. Our stove was a wood burner. That was in 1955, we were behind the times up until that year. In 1956 My dad got a used 1950 Chevrolet, a new closed box fridge. Then in 1950 we updated even more. We moved into a house that had running water, a flushing commode, hot water heater, a gas stove and my Mom got her first electric mixer (a Kitchen-aid with all the attachements). We were high class then.

So brother Tom, how old were you in 1905 did you say? ;)

I would say he was about a -43.

 ;D

My memory fails me, but I think that I was a youngster at the time, and I seem to remember something about a charge up San Juan Hill. UM?? - I was a cannon-ball catcher. It was a rough job, but someone had to do it.  ;D

And of course, you volunteered. ;D

No, don't feel old.  ;) Here in Michigan we leave cider and milk and occasionally other "fridge" items on the back porch in cool weather, if we need some space in the fridge. Also, apples and deer carrots keep pretty well out there.

I have a feeling that our fridge is bigger than your mother's fridge, though.  ;D

yeah she did i also remenber the old clothes ines, we would hang clothes and when it got real cold the clothes would feeeze  ;D ;D

Yeah and we would just beat the ice off and they would be dry.

I had to do that in boot camp, too!

yeah, I wan't in boot camp. But I remember sometimes we had to hang the clothes near the kitchen stove to 'thaw' Rofl  Things sure have advanced.
Just as the Lord said there would be increase of knowledge... and to think all in less than half a century.

In some ways I think it has been a decrease in knowledge. Many of the young people don't know how to handle things in order to survive if the power goes off.

You mean if you have to put ice, in the icebox? ;D

Yep and anything that doesn't require a computer is foreign to them.

A Kroger store is just 3 1/2 blockes from here. I had one of my sons ask for a ride to the store. It was a beautiful warm day. I told him the car was broken down so I couldn't take him. He said "Oh man .... how am I going to get there now?" It didn't dawn on him that he could walk there.

 ::) ::) ::) ::)

( using robot voice) That does not comptue.....
resistance is futile.

LOL, I have a Icebox, in my old shop.

I see we have a Trekker/Trekkie in the forum.

Danger, Will Robinson Danger!

oops got that one wrong .... it must be the meds .....


 ;) ;) ::) ::)

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quick remedy   

I'm afraid there isn't enough coffee in the world when I'm having one of my moments.   :'( :'(

A horse drawn carriage in the early 1950s  ???  and selling ice no less. ???  Was that in the United States?

ollie

YES!!! in New York City no less!!
And they even had the horse drawn buggy that we used to call the friut man, he sold friut, vegetables and eggs too.
 ;D  ;D  ;D
Soon after that someone came up with the idea of bringing milk to you doorstep, my dad would buy milk, eggs, and butter from him. and gas was 5 cents a gallon. And my dad used to smoke cigaretts cost him 25 cents a pack, and my dad paid $35 a month for rent. Some apartments didn't have a bathtub in the bathrooms, which were shared by at least 2 other tenants so people would buy bathtubs and put them in the kitchen. and I remember my mom used to heat water on the stove. Avery Very old stove with a big chimmney. And for heaters we used these old heating stoves that used kerosene. And sometimes the soot would leave blackmarks on the walls, we had to wash them down. The paint was lead based too. The windows were so big, they had big window sills, big enough for 2 people to sit on them.
And guess what when I had my first baby there were no such things as Pampers, which were, buy the way the first to come up with disposable diapers, and when they finally did invent Pampers they didn't even have the little stick flaps I had to use safety pins. And whats more the Doctors always used to make housecalls. ER's were only for people who were admitted by the doctor. And when someone in the neighborhood died eveyone would line up on the curb and salute and say the final goodbye to their neighbor. Funerals always drove past the deceased perseons residence. Things have changed Ollie. Now I don't know how rich people lived, but then again we were not a rich family, and before I forget, we had a puoltry store across the street, were people would go and pick out the chicken they wanted and it would be slaughtered right then and there. We had no supermarkets that I can remember of . We had a meat store a poultry, shoe store, the drug store, the general store, and the hardware store you could buy almost anythhing there. I could go on forever. Oh and we didn't even have to lock our doors a night, crime rate was very, very low. And Schools ere from kindergarten to the ninth grade and there was a dentist in every school and a real registered nurse too. Ollie those who are older than 57 can probably remember the good ole days.

Thats right Ollie. I'm not over 57, I am 55 but I still remember such things. Many of the poorer people still used horse drawn wagons in some cities. That was not the case in the city I was raised in which was a small farming town but I remember going to a large city nearby with my parents and seeing the fruit and ice wagons still in use there. In my town the local delivery was done by an old 1929 Ford truck. I still remember the farmers name as he went to our church. He did use horse drawn vehicles on the farm and in other rural use to save on gas.

I also remember the first "Super Market" in our town. It wasn't until 1960 and it wasn't much bigger than what some gas stations are now. In the early '50s to go shopping at the stores downtown meant going to four or five differnt stores. One for fruit and vegetables, another for meats, another for Moms sewing supplies (Ben Franklins for that). That was a rare event because we got most of our stuff straight from the farm because it was cheaper.

I rememer the first Supermarket too, it was A&P. I really preffered going to the meat market, the fruit and vegetable market, and the old general store, oh and I almost forgot the delicatessan, I remember the cheese and salami hanging from the ceilings and I remember they used sawdust on the floor and it was always cold in there but I didn't like the poultry store across the street, (talk about RANK). I used to cover my mouth and nose every time my mom told me to go buy chicken. And I remember the penny candy (yum) mary janes were big and they had a lot of filling. I kinda mis those days. I remember our first TV it had a screen that was about 6 inches. And my mom used to listen to the soap operas on the radio. LOL

Our first supermarket was called Paul's. Until then all of our meat came from the farm. We didn't use the meat market as my mother didn't like going there. The same with the cheese and salami store, all straight from the farm. Our first TV was a 12" round b&w screen.

The good ole days.

Of course they were black and whit PR.  ;D
Our second TV was a round screen too. I used to think the people on tv could see us too, (ahh innocense * sigh*).

The first motorized vehicle I road in. It belonged to my grandpa.

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He took me fishing in it all the time.

This was one of his many Model A's. I'm not sure if I road in this particular one or not.

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I remember our first TV. It was black and white, about 20 inches.  Course that was in 1968 we finally got a TV.

In 1968 we had our second color tv it was a Zenith floor model. That was one year before I joined the Navy.

Just rub it in P.R. ;) Course we were not very well off. That TV, I bought with money from my paper route. I can remember riding my bike everywhere.  And here kids today have to ride in cars, to deliver the paper. :(

 ;D ;D

I had to walk my paper route and to and from the lawns I mowed and raked. I didn't have a bike.  :'( :'(

I mowed lawns too.Thats how I bought my bike.

All mine went for clothes and church events.

I was expected to pay, 50% for my clothing.

  How do you do a quote?  I forgot how.  Re: WOW! - The Year 1905

You had this old lady stumped.  I don't think any of you were born yet in 1905!!!  I wasn't even born yet.  I remember the 50's tho.

My family didn't have a TV but my neighbor did.  It was exciting when they asked us over to see theiir 7 " one---black and white of course---in 1948.  What did we watch?  WRESTLING!!!!  The mother did a lot of yelling at the wrestlers.
She shocked me when she yelled: "Break off his arm and hit him over the head with the bloody stump"  Violent, wasn't she?

We had an ice man but he used a beat up truck.  One day he used it for ice.  Another time he was the rag man.  This was earlier than the '50's, though.  We liked the ice man and followed him.  He would give us pieces of ice. 

We were scared of the rag man (two personalities)  "Any rags; old iron" was his call.  When we heard that, the neighbor twins and I ran into their house and ducked behind the couch until he was gone.  When we were "bad" (not me!!!) we were threatened that we would be given to the rag man.

Those were the days.  Just an old timer, Joan

Hello LivingByFaith,

Sister Joan, I was just thinking again about how nice it is to have you with us. I just looked at your profile and see that you have listed 75 as your age. I'm almost sure that you win the honors for being either our oldest members or one of our oldest members. We have many members who don't list their age.

I applaud you for doing all of this new-fangled Internet stuff. It's very nice to have a mature and strong Christian woman participating on Christians Unite. We do have quite a few grandparents on the forum, but most of us are 15 years or more younger than you are. Again, I applaud you for becoming involved, and it makes me happy to be able to talk with a strong Christian woman with your wisdom and maturity.

I'll  simply say that I give thanks for you being here, and I sincerely hope that you are enjoying Christians Unite. Sister Joan, I hope you don't mind me asking you to take a look in the "Women Only" area of the forum. There are many Christian women on the forum with a variety of very difficult problems. I was just thinking how wonderful it would be if you would help some of them from time to time.

Sister Joan, please let me tell you one more time how much we enjoy having you with us. I try to make it a point to read all of your posts because I enjoy them and recognize them as coming from a very sweet and mature Christian.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 5:17-18 NASB  For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.  So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

Hi livingbyfaith,

I just want to say that I agree with Brother Tom's sentiments. I have read many of your posts and it is indeed great to have you here.

No most of us weren't here in 1905 but as in most places here in the U.S. there are some areas that are quite a ways behind the times. I have been to some areas that do not have the capability to have TV yet, cable or over-the-air. I remember a rag man still in 1956. Only the one we had was a pretty nice man. He also did metal collecting in addition to the rags as well as firewood. He also drove an old beatup Ford truck.



 

And now, some sad news from 1905. :'(

1905 Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia

Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into violence in St. Petersburg in what will become known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre.

Under the weak-willed Romanov Czar Nicholas II, who ascended to the throne in 1894, Russia had become more corrupt and oppressive than ever before. Plagued by the fear that his line would not continue—his only son, Alexis, suffered from hemophilia—Nicholas fell under the influence of such unsavory characters as Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “mad monk.” Russia’s imperialist interests in Manchuria at the turn of the century brought on the Russo-Japanese War, which began in February 1904. Meanwhile, revolutionary leaders, most notably the exiled Vladimir Lenin, were gathering forces of socialist rebellion aimed at toppling the czar.

To drum up support for the unpopular war against Japan, the Russian government allowed a conference of the zemstvos, or the regional governments instituted by Nicholas’s grandfather Alexander II, in St. Petersburg in November 1904. The demands for reform made at this congress went unmet and more radical socialist and workers’ groups decided to take a different tack.

On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre, to which Nicholas responded by promising the formation of a series of representative assemblies, or Dumas, to work toward reform.

Internal tension in Russia continued to build over the next decade, however, as the regime proved unwilling to truly change its repressive ways and radical socialist groups, including Lenin’s Bolsheviks, became stronger, drawing ever closer to their revolutionary goals. The situation would finally come to a head more than 10 years later as Russia’s resources were stretched to the breaking point by the demands of World War I.

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I think this is what he looked like

I wrote a thank you all for teh kind words and lost it.  I won't even try to repeat it all.  Thanks again.

 :)    ;D   :o    ???      ::)     :-[     I would like to know how to get some neat graphics like you have,

I enjoy this site.  I'll be posting more after I get my stuff in better order.  I send to about 20 sites.  I'm trying to keep record of where I send what to so I don't sent the same one twice.

I did put a few things on the women only section.  Some pretty tough stuff.  I hope it will help others.  Main reason I am writing as God wants me to do.

Love you all with God's love, just me, the old lady turned 16!  Joan

P.S.  I tried to answer but I lost it sooooooooooooooooo.

That's alright sister, I understand completely.

Some of the graphics we have here are made by some individuals here. Others are gotten off the interent. I use the google image search to get some. A few of those I modify before I use them.

Except for us Y2K fanatics. We have enough red wheat berries, navy beans, corn, milk, oats, rye, etc. to get us through at least a couple years without electric...we have a BOS (spelling?) radio, you wind it up and it plays for hours...lots of sheet plastic...a hand-pump in the basement for all of our water needs...two huge mop buckets (with wringers) for washing and wringing clothes...a hand-powered washing machine (tiny, but serviceable)...meat animals...lots and lots and lots of shampoo  :D...antibiotics...lists and lists of what can be eaten in case of food shortage, and how to cook it (worms go down easier with kool-aid)...generator...clothesline...hand-powered coffee grinder (can't live without coffee, right? LOL)...and all kinds of other things that take up a whole lot of room in the basement...

There was a 'rag man' here in my community, he passed away about six years ago...he called himself "Old Orangey", and he collected junk metal. I only saw him once, he was a friendly old black man.

I don't know what year our Zenith was (80s, I think), but it was a wonderful memory; every week, Dad inevitably said, "Wow, look at that color!" The Zenith died about two years ago, and we now have a new "Philips energy star" that makes wierd roars and hisses and won't let us watch our favorite shows. Now, instead of "look at that color!", Dad says, "I never knew TVs did that until we got this one..."

Be careful Willow don't sit directly in front of that tv.  ;D

I wouldn't be in the same room with it.

or the same house for that matter  ;D

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Don't worry about me...

 ;D  ;D  ;D
There ya go